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The following are ships that are being built or that will be transferred to the Portuguese Navy: 6 Viana do Castelo -class patrol vessel being built by West Sea Shipyard (Portugal). 1 Amphibious transport dock based on HNLMS Rotterdam called " Navio Polivalente Logístico ".
NRP Vouga, lead ship of the Vouga-class destroyers employed in the defense of the Portuguese sea lines of communications during World War II. Portugal remained a neutral country during World War II, but its Government would later assume a neutral collaborating attitude toward the Allied powers. The Navy contributed for the defense of the ...
At the start of World War II in 1939, the Portuguese Government announced on 1 September that the 550-year-old Anglo-Portuguese Alliance remained intact, but since the British did not seek Portuguese assistance, Portugal was free to remain neutral in the war and would do so.
SS Quanza was a World War II-era Portuguese passenger-cargo ship, [3] best known for carrying 317 people, many of them refugees, from Nazi-occupied Europe to North America in 1940. At least 100 of its passengers were Jewish.
A fifth ship, Dão, again to be built in Lisbon using Yarrow-supplied machinery, was ordered on 18 January 1933. [4] Yarrow's design was based on Ambuscade, a prototype destroyer built for the Royal Navy in 1926. [5] The ships were 323 feet (98.45 m) long overall, with a beam of 31 feet (9.45 m) and a draught of 11 feet (3.35 m).
World War II merchant ships of Portugal (5 P) This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 16:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Portuguese-class trawlers of World War II were naval trawlers, built in Portugal for the Royal Navy. These vessels were built in several Portuguese yards, and offered by Portugal to the Royal Navy. This aid to the British war effort solicited protests by Nazi Germany, since, officially, Portugal was a neutral country.
The ship was the first of the Afonso de Albuquerque class, which also included NRP Bartolomeu Dias. These ships were classified, by the Portuguese Navy, as avisos coloniais de 1ª classe (1st class colonial aviso or sloop) and were designed to maintain a Portuguese naval presence in the Overseas territories of Portugal. They had limited ...